July 2013

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

This release updates our OpenJDK 7 support to include support for the ARM32 JIT port running on HotSpot 23, meaning ARM users can move to the 2.3.x series. A number of build issues were discovered with the ARM port in the previous 2.3.11 release and this release provides fixes for these.

In addition, IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric architectures. In this release, use of the system version of LCMS is again enabled by default, but requires version 2.5 or above.

Happy hacking!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

This release updates our OpenJDK 7 support to include support for the ARM32 JIT port running on HotSpot 23, meaning ARM users can move to the 2.3.x series. Note: There will be no more 2.1.x releases.

In addition, IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric architectures. In this release, use of the system version of LCMS is again enabled by default, but requires version 2.5 or above.

Please test and report any issues as soon as possible. We plan to do a 2.3.11 release based on this by the end of the month. There are no planned security updates for the 2.1.x and 2.2.x branches, so they will become obsolete with the October 2013 security update.

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

These releases update our OpenJDK 6 support to include the latest security updates. We recommend that users upgrade as soon as possible.

IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric architectures. If you find an issue with the release, please report it to our bug database under the appropriate component. Development discussion takes place on the distro-pkg-dev OpenJDK mailing list and patches are always welcome.

Full details of the release can be found below. Note that we have also included a subset of the changes which were part of the 7u25 update, compromising of those which we thought safest to include in a stable 6 release.

Happy hacking!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

This release updates our OpenJDK 7 support to include the latest security updates. As mentioned in the notes for the 2.4.0 release, we also continue to track the upcoming u40 release upstream and this update synchronises IcedTea with 7u40 b31.

IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric architectures. In this release, use of the system version of LCMS is disabled by default to ensure the most secure version is used. Before using the system version, please ensure it is version 2.5 or above, or it has the S8007925, S8007926, S8007927, S8007929 and S8009654 updates listed above.

Happy hacking!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

These releases update our OpenJDK 7 support to include the latest security updates. We recommend that users of the 2.1.x and 2.2.x branches upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible. The security fixes are as follows:

S8001330 is currently only provided for HotSpot 23.7 on 2.3.x, as we’ve found it to be unstable when applied to the older HotSpots. If we find a solution for this, we’ll issue a further update.

This will be the last set of updates for the 2.1.x and 2.2.x branches. Users should upgrade to either 2.3.10 or the upcoming 2.4.1 release. Those users who need ARM32 JIT support should wait for the 2.3.11 release, coming in the next few months, which will add this to the 2.3.x series.

IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric architectures. In this release, use of the system version of LCMS is disabled by default to ensure the most secure version is used. Before using the system version, please ensure it has the S8007925, S8007926, S8007927, S8007929 and S8009654 updates listed above.